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It appears that the Eowyn paradox may have been indented to be answered by us, since a vague resemblance exists in the name Eowyn with the process that has boxed her life in. The fist part of Eowyn may be related to word "ehe," which is the German word for marriage, while the second part could be related to "winning," like winning an Olympic competition, which is in this case for getting the best possible deal in the process of the 'privatization' of life.
The scope of the future
All of these aspects together, finally bring into the foreground some profound questions that are indeed relevant to dealing with the challenges arising from the ring. The entire saga is evidently a saga of human beings gaining the freedom to step out of their boxed in conditions that society finds itself in. Some of these conditions may be small and insignificant, some may even appear benign, while others threaten civilization and humanity as a whole, even the earth itself as in the case of nuclear war.
In its huge scope, the saga of the Lord of the Rings appears to touch on all types of conditions, which are therein resolved, save one. One wonders therefore at point when the saga closes, whether it is really possible to step out of a single one of the boxed in conditions, without at the same time stepping out of all of them together, seeing that the principle of the process is the same in every case, which may summarily be defined as; immortality, sublimity, and Love. It appears to me that we have to win on the whole front together. Our failure to make this complete solution our goal may be the reason why we have not yet won a single battle to date, of the range of battles that must be won, that Tolkien has laid out before us.
Shouldn't this universal failure also cause us to take another look at ourselves, and assess our situation in this critical time in which time is fast running out? Isn't that what Tolkien is really saying with his epic saga, the Lord of the Rings? He may be shouting to us, as Gandalf did before he was dragged off the bridge of Khazad-dum, "Fly you fools!"
If that is his warning, society is not hearing it. We remain as boxed in by our time honored traditions as we had been when the saga was completed half a century ago. Nothing has changed, except for the worse. How deeply we have fallen into the rut in North America can be judged by the following differential of our interests as a society. The American society presently spends between twenty to thirty billions dollars each year on covert operations around the world and related processes, many of which are designed to destabilize other national governments, if not entire continents. In contrast to this vast dedication of resources to degenerative purposes, hardly a penny is being spent comparatively, by society, in support of those very few, like LaRouche, who devote their life to protect and advance civilization. If that is an indication of how little human life is judged to be worth these days, then the great saga of the Lord of the Rings has been written in vain. In this case, its promises will likely never be made true, with the exception of one promise that it tried to prevent, which is our locked in position to the doctrine of "Mutually Assured Destruction."
Still, for as long as life remains, the hope remains that society will rededicate itself into the right direction. This too, appears to have been Tolkien's promise.
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Stories about
Love
from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche
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